Sentence examples for self-serving approach from inspiring English sources

A ticking off from the UK statistics chief, Sir Andrew Dilnot, for an egregious misreading of the OECD education league tables also suggested a self-serving approach to evidence.

The buzz exposes China's selective and self-serving approach to history: the censors allow "Back to 1942" but hardly tolerate any account of the largely manmade Great Famine that took place under Mao in 1958-62 and left tens of millions dead.

A less self-serving approach often yields better results.

More recently it's been putting money into telecom infrastructure a bit less loudly — presumably hoping a less immediately self-serving approach to investing in infrastructure in target growth markets will avoid another highly politicized controversy.

The takers, who adopted a self-serving approach to the world, expected Bozo to give more than twice as much as Einstein.

But the country's leadership has come to believe that the loss of traditional Confucian values of honour and decency have harmed the country, as burgeoning wealth and the rise of consumerism caused a more self-serving, money-grabbing approach.

This suggests that the government may be planning to attack the internationally agreed definition of aid to accommodate a stronger role for more self-serving, national interest-oriented approaches the UK is now advocating.

The other Democratic candidates fizzled out big time, owing, in the cases of Anthony Weiner and Christine Quinn, to a widespread, accurate perception of their character, the constituencies they would service once in office, and/or the degree of self-serving rapacity with which they approach the idea of public service.

Secondly, the data was only collected in a Chinese cultural context so there was no comparison between Chinese and western approaches to self-serving bias.

Dreamers' self-serving bias is tactfully defined as a "motivated approach to dream interpretation" by Dr. Morewedge and Dr. Norton in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

"I hate to sound self-serving here, but I think filtering is the best approach," Mr. Burt said.